Josh Compton

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Josh Compton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Josh Compton has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 15 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Josh Compton's work include Media Influence and Health (19 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (16 papers) and Communication in Education and Healthcare (9 papers). Josh Compton is often cited by papers focused on Media Influence and Health (19 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (16 papers) and Communication in Education and Healthcare (9 papers). Josh Compton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Josh Compton's co-authors include Michael Pfau, Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek, Bobi Ivanov, Kimberly A. Parker, Ben Jackson, James A. Dimmock, John Cook, Melisa Basol and Joshua M. Averbeck and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Josh Compton

48 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19

2020 331 citations Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josh Compton United States	19	1.1k	480	384	213	204	50	1.5k
John A. Banas United States	18	884 0.8×	328 0.7×	388 1.0×	154 0.7×	471 2.3×	40	1.5k
Nathan Walter United States	18	1.6k 1.5×	693 1.4×	516 1.3×	291 1.4×	224 1.1×	84	2.1k
Jingbo Meng United States	19	963 0.9×	561 1.2×	138 0.4×	118 0.6×	252 1.2×	50	1.6k
Riva Tukachinsky United States	20	861 0.8×	455 0.9×	672 1.8×	66 0.3×	197 1.0×	30	1.4k
Thomas Hove South Korea	22	822 0.8×	472 1.0×	227 0.6×	158 0.7×	111 0.5×	59	1.5k
Jonathon McPhetres United States	15	1.4k 1.3×	399 0.8×	197 0.5×	373 1.8×	201 1.0×	29	1.8k
Fuyuan Shen United States	25	956 0.9×	537 1.1×	728 1.9×	99 0.5×	187 0.9×	60	1.9k
Porismita Borah United States	25	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 2.7×	337 0.9×	334 1.6×	128 0.6×	90	2.4k
Benjamin K. Johnson United States	25	1.2k 1.1×	662 1.4×	517 1.3×	48 0.2×	234 1.1×	64	1.8k
Ye Sun United States	17	658 0.6×	525 1.1×	320 0.8×	51 0.2×	114 0.6×	38	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josh Compton

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Roozenbeek, Jon, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, Melisa Basol, et al.. (2025). Psychological inoculation improves resilience to and reduces willingness to share vaccine misinformation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 29830–29830.

Jones, Daniel N., et al.. (2024). Inoculating Against Moral Disengagement Creates Ethical Adherence for Narcissism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 52(4). 759–776.

Mason, Alicia, et al.. (2023). Analyzing the Prophylactic and Therapeutic Role of Inoculation to Facilitate Resistance to Conspiracy Theory Beliefs. Communication Reports. 37(1). 13–27. 4 indexed citations

Compton, Josh, et al.. (2022). Playoff Losses, Mayoral Politics, Image Repair, and Inoculation: Open Letter Sport Communication. Communication & Sport. 11(3). 616–633. 4 indexed citations

Clayton, Russell B., et al.. (2022). Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures. Human Communication Research. 49(1). 104–111. 12 indexed citations

Compton, Josh. (2021). Threat and/in Inoculation Theory. International journal of communication. 15. 13. 13 indexed citations

Mason, Alicia, et al.. (2021). Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites. Journal of Health Communication. 26(10). 667–674. 17 indexed citations

Compton, Josh. (2019). Late night television comedy, mid-afternoon congressional testimony: attacks on Stephen Colbert’s house judiciary committee appearance. 10(2). 145–153. 1 indexed citations

Compton, Josh. (2019). Prophylactic Versus Therapeutic Inoculation Treatments for Resistance to Influence. Communication Theory. 30(3). 330–343. 61 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh. (2018). When Weather Forecasters Are Wrong: Image Repair and Public Rhetoric After Severe Weather. Science Communication. 40(6). 778–788. 3 indexed citations

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Jackson, Ben, Josh Compton, Ashleigh Thornton, & James A. Dimmock. (2017). Re-Thinking Anxiety: Using Inoculation Messages to Reduce and Reinterpret Public Speaking Fears. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169972–e0169972. 16 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh, Ben Jackson, & James A. Dimmock. (2016). Persuading Others to Avoid Persuasion: Inoculation Theory and Resistant Health Attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 122–122. 91 indexed citations

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Jackson, Ben, et al.. (2015). Preempting Performance Challenges: The Effects of Inoculation Messaging on Attacks to Task Self-Efficacy. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0124886–e0124886. 18 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh, et al.. (2013). Inoculating for Small Pox Inoculation Objections in Reverend Cooper’s Letter to a Friend in the Country. The Journal of Communication and Religion. 36(1). 92–107. 4 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh & Bobi Ivanov. (2013). Vaccinating Voters: Surveying Political Campaign Inoculation Scholarship. Annals of the International Communication Association. 37(1). 251–283. 20 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh, et al.. (2012). Imagining a Writing and Rhetoric Program Based on Principles of Knowledge "Transfer": Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.. 26. 3 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh & Brett A. Miller. (2011). Image repair in late night comedy: Letterman and the Palin joke controversy. Public Relations Review. 37(4). 415–421. 7 indexed citations

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Parker, Kimberly A., Bobi Ivanov, & Josh Compton. (2011). Inoculation's Efficacy With Young Adults' Risky Behaviors: Can Inoculation Confer Cross-Protection Over Related but Untreated Issues?. Health Communication. 27(3). 223–233. 50 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh. (2006). Serious as a Heart Attack: Health-Related Content of Late-Night Comedy Television. Health Communication. 19(2). 143–151. 9 indexed citations

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Compton, Josh. (2006). Book Reviews. Journal of Communication. 56(3). 635–636. 90 indexed citations

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